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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

by Kim Phillips-Fein

An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go ba

Publisher

Picador

Publication date

Apr 10, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

432

ISBN

9781250160072